A convenient list of games involving teams in the San Francisco Bay Area

and their dates and times

Monday, March 17 through Sunday, March 23

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Monday, March 17

San Francisco Giants (split squad) @ California

Angels, 1:05 p.m.

Oakland A's (split squad) v. Chicago Cubs,

1:05 p.m.

San Jose SaberCats @ Portland Thunder,

7:00 p.m.

Tuesday, March 18

Golden State Warriors v. Orlando Magic,

7:30 p.m.

Sacramento Kings v. Washington Wizards,

7:00 p.m.

San Jose Sharks v. Florida Panthers, 7:30 p.m.

San Francisco Giants @ Cleveland Indians,

7:05 p.m.

Oakland A's @ Chicago White Sox, 1:05 p.m.

Saint Mary's BB (M) No. 4 v. Utah No. 5,

8:00 p.m.

Wednesday, March 19

Oakland A's @ Cleveland Indians, 1:05 p.m.

San Jose Earthquakes @ Deportivo, 5:00 p.m.

Cal BB (M) No. 2 v. Utah Valley No. 7, 7:30 p.m.

USF BB (M) No. 4 v. LSU No. 5, 7:00 p.m.

Thursday, March 20

Golden State Warriors v. Milwaukee Bucks,

7:30 p.m.

San Jose Sharks v. Anaheim Ducks, 7:30 p.m.

San Francisco Giants @ San Diego Padres,

7:05 p.m.

Friday, March 21

Sacramento Kings v. San Antonio Spurs,

7:00 p.m.

San Francisco Giants v. Oakland A's, 6:35 p.m.

Stanford BB (M) No. 10 v. New Mexico No. 7

@ St. Louis, MO, 10:40 a.m.

Saturday, March 22

Golden State Warriors v. San Antonio Spurs,

7:30 p.m.

San Jose Sharks v. Washington Capitals,

7:30 p.m.

San Francisco Giants (split squad) @ Chicago

White Sox, 1:05 p.m.

Oakland A's (split squad) v. Seattle Mariners,

1:05 p.m.

San Jose Earthquakes @ Sporting KC, 5:30 p.m.

Sunday, March 23

Sacramento Kings v. Milwaukee Bucks,

3:00 p.m.

San Francisco Giants v. Kansas City Royals,

1:05 p.m.

Oakland A's (split squad) v. Chicago Cubs,

1:05 p.m.

Oakland A's (split squad) @ Seattle Mariners,

1:05 p.m.

San Jose SaberCats v. Philadelphia Hornets,

5:00 p.m.

Legend: BB = basketball, (M) = Men,

(W) = Women

Radio:

Golden State Warriors - KNBR 680 AM

Oakland A's - 95.7 FM

Sacramento Kings - KHTK 1140 AM

San Francisco Giants - KNBR 680 AM

San Jose Earthquakes - 1590 KLIV AM,

1370 KZSF AM (Spanish)

San Jose SaberCats - KNBR 1050 AM

Stanford basketball - KNBR 1050 AM, TBS (TV)

"He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings."

~Torrin Polk, University of Houston receiver,

on his coach, Joint Jenkins.

"The towels were so thick there I could

hardly close my suitcase."

~Yogi Berra

MLB catcher and manager

Baseball Hall of Fame, 1972

There are 6 days left until the start of the MLB season

(Los Angeles Dodgers v. Arizona Diamondbacks,

Sydney, Australia, Sunday, March 23).

A Memorable Sports Moment

By the column inch

Prep school sports. Rings a bell, doesn't it?

When I was a teenager I attended a small boarding school in New Jersey. A number of colleges used to delay the enrollment of incoming freshman athletes, sending them to schools like ours for an extra year of growth and seasoning. A talented kid would use up his high school years, get his diploma and enroll at a prep school for another year of chemistry or trig, and another season on the gridiron or hardwood, before heading off to Ivy League U.

Who paid the tuition fees? Nobody talked about that.

Schools like mine were feeders to colleges in that era - longer ago than you would believe, children - just as the colleges today serve as feeders to the NFL and NBA.

Major newspapers and radio stations in New York, Newark, Trenton and Philadelphia set up networks of stringers at schools throughout the area. At our school a sports-loving teacher named Paul Hartpence - he was also our track and cross-country coach - was the contact point. He recruited a staff of at least slightly literate students to cover games. On a typical autumn Saturday there might be a football game, a soccer match and a cross-country race to cover. In winter it was basketball, wrestling, riflery. In the spring, baseball, track, tennis.

We learned the jargon of each sport, and were encouraged to use the terminology. Cross-country runners were harriers, wrestlers were grunt-and-groaners. Baseball was never played on a field, only on a diamond, and a pitcher wasn't a pitcher, he was a hurler or a fireballer or a wily craftsman.

Mr. Hartpence would assign a writer to each game. I must have been high on the depth chart because I always got the top sport - football, basketball, baseball. I became official scorer for all three. I remember sitting in the "press box," an elevated section of wooden bleacher, on bitter November afternoons, unable to feel my fingers as I charted the plays, blue for the home team, red for visitors.

We'd trudge back to the press office - occasionally getting a lift in Mr. Hartpence's ancient Ford coupe - and have to write multiple versions of the same story, so that each customer got his own text. There were hard deadlines and hard word counts.

Our customers used to pay by the column inch. Mr. Hartpence would get a check and cash it and divide the proceeds among his minions. I don't remember how often payday came around, but I used to treasure those payments. Sometimes my share would be 50 cents, sometimes as much as a dollar or even a dollar and a half.

And our clipping service would send back the proof of our efforts. There I was on the sports pages of the Sunday papers, cheek by jowl with greats like Stanley Woodward and Red Smith. Of course they had big columns with bylines and photos while I would have just a single anonymous paragraph at the bottom of the page, but still, we were colleagues, weren't we?

I learned a lot from that job. For one thing, it was real work and I received real pay for it. For another, I learned to perform to specs. If the deadline was 6 and the customer wanted 185 words, you had your story on the wire on time and it was the prescribed length, not much more and not any less. And there was no not showing up for work because you had a headache or the sniffles, and there was no excuse if the muse wasn't with you that day. You were a sportswriter. You were a professional, and you did your job.

Those little payments of 50 cents or a dollar were the most precious money I've ever earned, and the pride of performance taught me lessons that I've carried throughout my life as a writer.

Richard A. Lupoff, fan extraordinaire

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